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THE WORLD'S FIRST IMPACT FUND INVESTING IN CLEAN COOKING IN DEVELOPING MARKETS

Spark+ Africa Fund is a $64 million impact investment fund financing companies

that offer next-generation, distributed clean cooking energy solutions

to the mass market in sub-Saharan Africa.

Spark+ was launched to catalyze investment in one of the world’s most underappreciated energy challenges with significant social and environmental implications in Africa, Asia, and Latin America: the dirty and unsustainable use of wood, charcoal, and kerosene for cooking.

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It is a "triple bottom line" impact fund, financing profitable and scalable companies tapping into a massive market for cooking energy solutions and enabling millions of African families to stay safe and healthy and save time and money. 

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These companies can also produce a range of other social and environmental benefits including protecting forests, enabling greater gender equality, creating industrial and economic development, and decreasing greenhouse gas emissions.

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The fund invests debt and mezzanine capital in leading companies throughout the value chains of various cooking fuels including liquified petroleum gas (LPG), biofuels such as bio-ethanol and wood pellets, electric appliances, and efficient biomass stoves.
 

Spark+ is the first fund of Luxembourg-based Spark+ General Partner S.à r.l., a joint venture between the fund's exclusive advisor, Swiss impact investment advisory firm Enabling Qapital (EQ), and Netherlands-based foundation Stichting Modern Cooking (SMC).

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OUR TARGETED INVESTMENTS
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NEXT-GEN COOKING ENERGY UTILITIES

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PRODUCT DESIGNERS AND MANUFACTURERS

FUEL PRODUCERS AND DISTRIBUTORS

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FINANCING AND DISTRIBUTION INTERMEDIARIES

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